Spinning Platters’ Top 50 Records from our First Decade: 31-50

Our very first photo posted was too small an image of Marnie Stern & I. I stand by the importance of this image.

The very first article posted to Spinning Platters was March 25th, 2009. It was a diary of the first few days of my second visit to SXSW. You can read that here, and even look at a picture of me 29 year old me with Marnie Stern.

That means this little music blog that has evolved into a music, film, theater, and comedy blog, and has been around for more than a decade at this point. So, in order to commemorate this time, I reached out to every person that has ever contributed to the site to pull together a top 50 records of the first ten years of Spinning Platters. That would be between March 2009 and March 2019.

Not everyone got back to me. I even got a couple, “I don’t remember doing this” emails from people that only contributed a couple of articles. However, this is definitely a list that represents the tastes of everyone that has been part of this thing. Since 50 records is a lot to take in at once, I’m just going to give you 31-50 today. Only without any words about the record at all, just a video from that album. Coming soon will be 11-30 with more commentary, and 1-10 with even more commentary will be coming your way before Christmas. So without further adieu, here’s your list!

50 David Byrne & St Vincent / Love This Giant

49 Chelsea Wolfe / Abyss

48 Blue Hawaii / Untogether

47 Beyonce’ / Lemonade

46 Future of the Left / Travels With Myself and Another

45 Taylor Swift / Speak Now

44 Lorde / Melodrama

43 Grizzly Bear / Veckatimest

42 Robyn / Honey

41 Rihanna / Loud

40 Bleached / Ride Your Heart

I said I wasn’t going to add any commentary to these ones, but this particular song may have saved my life during a particularly grueling and emotional stretch in 2014.